Styphelia blakei is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to inland southern Queensland. It is a sometimes prostrate, twiggy shrub with hairy branches, egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and small white flowers.
Styphelia blakei is a sometimes prostrate shrub with twiggy, softly-hairy branchlets, that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and sessile. The leaves are slightly concave, slightly turned downwards and slightly softly-hairy on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on short side-branches and are more or less sessile, with bracts and longer bracteoles about long. The sepals are long and the petals are white and form a tube about long with lobes about long and hairy near the ends. The fruit is an elliptic drupe about long.[1]
This species was first formally described in 1990 by Leslie Pedley in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected in the Carnarvon Range by Clifford Gittins in 1960.[2] In 2020, Michael Hislop, Daren Crayn and Caroline Puente-Lelievre transferred the species to Styphelia as S. blakei in the Australian Systematic Botany.[3] The specific epithet (blakei) honours Stanley Thatcher Blake.
Styphelia blakei grows on shallow sandy soil in inland southern Queensland.